Completing the film involved more than people over four years. Principal photography alone took 18 months. Instead of ink on paper, 3D printing uses a UV-sensitive resin and support material that is sprayed down in a layering process that builds objects in 3D space. The Fantastic Garden was the most complex set created for the film, featuring hundreds of handcrafted flowers, most of which had their own individual light sources.
Many of the flowers had to be built so that they could move or grow for the shots of Coraline entering the garden. Coraline's tiny gloves were knitted by hand by a miniature knitter, who made six pairs of gloves with silk. A single garment that small took anywhere from six weeks to six months from conceptual design to finished product. Some of the needles used were as small and fine as human hair. The Jumping Mouse Circus sequence had as many as 51 carefully choreographed mice onscreen at once, each needing to be replaced with a slightly different mouse 12 times for every second of film.
The Coraline puppet had 42 different wigs. As the Other Mother becomes her true self, we see more insect-like characteristics appear. The Other Mother is an expert at sewing, her clothes become reminiscent of an insect's thorax and abdomen, and in her final form as a spider, the Other Mother hunts in her web containing the bug furniture that resemble previously caught prey by vibration just like a real spider. During the first scene set in Coraline's bedroom, you can see that the photo frame containing the photo of her friends from back home is set on a stand in the shape of a Praying Mantis.
This links to the Praying Mantis tractor that the 'Other' Father drives later on in the film. At the end of the movie, the clouds moving away from the moon are in the shapes of the Other Mother's hands. The Other Mother is never seen eating at any of the dinner scenes. The only thing she eats are the cocoa beetles. This is most likely due to her wanting to "eat" Coraline's life. When Coraline finds the old well in the first act of the film, she discovers it's in a fairy ring she previously stepped in.
In Western Europe, stepping in fairy rings can be either a good or bad omen. Often they are seen as hazardous and dangerous places, such as a human getting trapped in the fairy realm for stepping on their 'sacred ground'. Sometimes, they can be linked with good fortune, such as a person being allowed to interact with and enjoy the company of fairies for a night. In the film, Coraline experiences both the good and bad consequences of stepping in the fairy ring.
But soon she's in danger of being trapped there forever unless she fixes both her mistakes and the mistakes of the children who came before her. The wallpaper in Coraline's living room has a bug pattern on it. Bugs symbolize the other mother's prey. When Miss Spink and Miss Forcible are arguing over whether Coraline's tea leaves are a "peculiar hand" or a "giraffe" technically they are both correct.
The giraffe is a hint to where the beldam hides her parents, because they are in the zoo snowglobe. The strange object that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible give Coraline on her second visit to their apartment is an adder stone. According to European mythology, adder stones have magical powers, such as the ability to reveal witch disguises and traps by looking through the middle of the stone.
Coraline does just this in the Other World to find the ghost children's real eyes. The three wonders the Other Mother makes for Coraline are references to the real world, as are what the Other people become when the Other world starts to fall apart.
The Other Father becomes a pumpkin in the garden, a reference to the real Father's job; the Other Bobinsky simply becomes rats in a costume, a reference to the real Bobinsky's jumping mice; and the Other Spink and Other Forcible are represented as candy, a reference to the real Spink and Forcible's taffy collection. Throughout the film, the neighbors call Coraline "Caroline", much to her annoyance. By the end of the film, everyone gets her name right. This could also symbolize Coraline's finally accepting the real world and the people in it.
Every scene in the real world has dark clouds around it, except for the end of the film. Also everything in the real world is shown to be grey except for the pink palace and her yellow raincoat.
There are various little hints in the background of Coraline to imply which children had once lived in the Pink Palace and gone missing throughout its history. Most notably there was the introductory scene of the doll resembling the ghost girl who was Grandma Lovat's missing sister, but there was also the "painfully boring" portrait Coraline discovers portraying an Edwardian-looking little boy eating an ice cream cone resembling one of the other ghosts , and the silhouettes of the three ghost children are seen on the wall of the dining room in the Other World, as well.
There were a number of deleted scenes in Coraline which further develop the plot and show the characters. These include among others : Charlie Jones serving a grotesque-looking casserole of some sort to Coraline while he talks about computer viruses, to which Coraline jokes, "this looks like it also has some kind of a virus!
Toward the end of the film, the three ghost children visit Coraline to warn her she is still in peril. One of them uses the term "You in danger girl", a line also used in the movie Ghost Coralines garden is the other mother's face, and the other mother's garden is Coraline's face. In the scene where Coraline first visits Ms.
Spink and Forcible, Ms. Spink says "You're as blind as a bat". Later in the other world, the dogs are turned into bats. When the other Mother proposes to sew the buttons in Coraline, it is possible to observe two horns on her head. These horns are highlighted to emphasize the dark magic that happens in the another world. The head with the horns is not in the kitchen in the real world.
Around the end of the movie when Coraline's parents are tucking her into bed, her father has a pizza stain on his shirt. This is because he was eating pizza in a deleted scene.
Sign In. Coraline Trivia Add new. Edit Report This. The on-screen snow was made from superglue and baking soda. The face on the dollar bill given to the mover for a tip is director Henry Selick. The first stop-motion animated feature to be shot entirely in 3-D. At one point in the movie, Coraline shows 16 different expressions in a span of 35 seconds. The other mother is always humming one of the soundtrack songs while she cooks.
The model of the Father was based on Ted Raimi. The first film directed by Henry Selick that is written by him. The first animated film to be released by Focus Features. Henry Selick's son, George Selick, voiced one of the ghost children. The key that opens the portal to the other world has a button at the end of it. Although this film was released in , it was produced in according to the credits. Sometimes things need to be deleted or condensed for time considerations.
Other times, new elements have to be added because translating the book literally just wouldn't work onscreen. Coraline was an example of the latter. While writing his adaptation, Henry Selick kept hitting a wall. He knew that Coraline has a lot of interesting things happen to her, but there was very little way for her to process them so that the audience would fully understand what she was thinking and feeling.
He therefore added a character who wasn't in the book. Wybie, the grandson of the landlady, was created so that Caroline would have someone else to talk to, rather than talking to herself. They Might Be Giants is a rock band known for catchy melodies and extremely quirky lyrics.
To that end, TMBG was hired to write ten songs for the soundtrack. The plan didn't work out. Coraline was different from many stop-motion animated films, in that it was the first of its kind to be shot in 3D.
The Nightmare Before Christmas had been post-converted, but Selick wanted to make his movie native to the format. This created a lot of additional challenges.
Specifically, he wanted to use 3D to create an effect similar to the one audiences felt in The Wizard of Oz , when the film dramatically shifts from black-and-white to color.
For scenes set in the Other World, things were further apart to create more depth and subsequently emphasize the 3D effect. Making the costumes for stop-motion animated characters is far more complicated than it looks. It's not just about sewing tiny articles of clothing to put on the figures. How they will look and move on camera must also be considered. Coraline 's costume designer, Deborah Cook, said Coraline's famous raincoat required wires and weights underneath it, so that it would look realistic onscreen.
Other articles needed similar construction. So you need to make it super heavy on the bottom of the hems so it looks right for the scale. It's got to be nerve-wracking being an author and watching as someone translates one of your books into a movie.
You have to hope that they remain true to your intentions. If they have to change things, you hope that those alterations don't destroy what you crafted. Neil Gaiman was largely very happy with Henry Selick's film version of Coraline , except for the ending, which he hated.
The writer told Entetainment Weekly that he didn't care for a moment in the finale in which Coraline is dragged around by a metal hand, and then Wybie rides in on his bike and smashes the hand with a rock. Ranft passed away in a tragic auto accident in Selick paid tribute to his pal with a scene in Coraline. The family moves into the Pink Palace with the help of the Ranft Brothers moving company. The characters were designed to look like Joe and his brother Jerome, who also had ties to Pixar.
It was a way of honoring a man who contributed so much to animated movies. A common misconception is that recording voices for animated features is fast, easy work. In reality, it takes years to make one, and actors are often called back in to re-record if scenes are changed or added in the process.
When a young performer like Dakota Fanning is involved, that can create a real problem. Fanning began giving voice to Coraline when she was only ten years old. The tedious nature of stop-motion animation ensured that production stretched on several years, and she was required to periodically come back in to say new lines.
As she moved into adolescence, though, her voice naturally began to change , growing a bit deeper. Fanning had to make herself speak in a higher-pitched voice in an effort to emulate her younger self.
Although she's a very recognizable actress, only her voice is featured in Coraline. Not appearing on camera doesn't mean that she didn't give a physical performance, though.
The challenge was making the real Mother different from the Other Mother. To differentiate between them, Hatcher gave herself different postures when recording her dialogue. When voicing Mother, she slouched so that her voice would sound more tired. For Other Mother, the actress stood bolt upright, so the character would sound stiff and mannered. This technique aided her performance, establishing more of a difference between the two iterations of Coraline's mom.
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